Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
by AtlasBarfed on Sunday May 30, 2021 @08:21PM
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The solution is an internal marketplace. Large enterprises formed from conglomeration often flub this. They often end up with a half dozen or more datacenters and ops groups. What do they do?
Consolidate them, and a knife fight happens between middle management machiavellis and the one that wins is not necessarily the best on price or features. It's the one who is best at winning reporting hierarchy wars.
Instead they should pit these groups against each other as internal options for hosting to various services that provide what is needed for growth, adaptation, or cost.
AWS should simply be one of those options. Really it can be the prototyping phase, and then budget squeezing will move the app to other (hopefully cheaper) inhouse options.
What is frustrating from my years in the big corps is that AWS was cheaper than the internal "clouds" or other relationships.
Consolidate them, and a knife fight happens between middle management machiavellis and the one that wins is not necessarily the best on price or features. It's the one who is best at winning reporting hierarchy wars.
Instead they should pit these groups against each other as internal options for hosting to various services that provide what is needed for growth, adaptation, or cost.
AWS should simply be one of those options. Really it can be the prototyping phase, and then budget squeezing will move the app to other (hopefully cheaper) inhouse options.
What is frustrating from my years in the big corps is that AWS was cheaper than the internal "clouds" or other relationships.